Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-19
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Editor 0'Brien MObbed on the Streets
Of Toronto, Barely Escaping
with His Life.
The Correspondent or the New York
Tribune Seriously Ipjured-The
Orangemen Garry the Day
LANsDoWNE TALKS.

.
"O'Brien is laboring under deceptive in
formation. l have always been disposed
to use my tenants with moderation and
justice. 1 have investigated every case
where injustice was complained of and 1
should have continued TO do so had not
the Land League interfered in my affairs.
The statement that has been made that l
borrowed money from the British govern
ment under the land improvement act
and loaned it to my tenants at in
creased interest is wholly untrue.
The charges that have been
brought against my grandfather in 1S47,
of cruel injustice and oppression are also
false. His estates were depleted and his
revenues seriously affected, yet notwith-
standing the causes which led to that IN
happy year he paid the costs of families
who desired to emigrate to America out
of his own pocket, while those who re-
manned were sustained nearly or almost
wholly at his expense.
TAKING SIDES.
OTTAWA, ONT, May 18.-The excur-
sion of Mr.. O'Brien, the Irish agitator,
seems to have changed the whole face of
Canadian politics, and 1t is thought will
have an important bearing on the future
of parties and politics in the Dominion.
The extreme constituencies atthe outsetto
criticism of any sort, whether of Canadian
institutions generally, or of Lord Lans-
downe's lOrdism particularly, where the
critic happened not to be resident in the
country, has given away and now men
have taken sides, aud in the hotels, and
on the streets and in the newspaper
offices, comparisons are being made and
8 battle is being fought over the relative
of being American citizens or
Canadian subjects OF her majesty. Cath
Olics who spoke regretfully in regard to
the Fenian invasion of twenty years ago
do not speak so now, ana Orangemen who
talked in determined manner
about O'Brien's "invasion" say
f he attempted to speak |
lere again he would probably pay the |
penalty with his life The Orangemen |
seem to feel that they have committed !
)lunder, not in having attacked the !
speaker and disturbed the meeting, but in !
not having done so half well enough.
they are now disappointed because they
'lloWed tie meeting to take place.
At 1889 tonight President Mulligan of
he local. branch of the National league
alled at the hotel and asked Mr.. O'Brien
o go out and have a walk. d. 2. Cahill,
Dennis Kilbride, the evicted tenant, and
T. NJ. Wall, special correspondent of the
Jew York Tribune, were present and
uggested that it
WOULD NOT BE PRUDENT
0 venture out, as darkness was
alling, and crowd of about 200
owdies had gathered around the hotel
issing, hooting and grosning. Mr..
,'Brien, however, persisted in going.
81 have the right to 60 out" he said in
determined manner, "and l will
o out,' and he did so,
lie gentleman before mentioned
him q few steps from
lie main entrance of the Rossin house.
n immense throng crowded the side {
ak. For more than two minutes
either Mr.. O'Brien nor his companions I
0uld step from the door. The crowd
rev in numbers and turbulence and :
urged up to the very spot where O'Brien
nd the tenant, KilbrIde, were standing.
hey groaned and KISSED into O'Brien's ,
zee such cries as, "Away Traitor"
Down with the dynamiterl" and good
I've the Queen"
"Come on" said O'Brien, "these men 7
ont own the street." and they pushed {
trough the crowd with Mr.. Mulligan
I'D r. B. Teefy bringing up the rear. The 8
outOus and quarrelsome OrangemeD were {
med with stout sticks. They came up S
O'Brien as he strobe along York street 7
it'll his friends and showed him and "a
stled against him, making several at t
mpts to strike him on the head with the q
icks. He lodged the blows, however,
Id his friends rallied around
m, but they were as one to S
ty. The faithful body guard was
roken again and again, and O'Brien was g
,iven up against the wall, as were Kill =
Ide, Mulligan and CahilI. The little
Irty stood at bay, O'Brien shouting at Z
e top of his voice, "You coWsrdly I.
,gs, don't you see we are not l.
med. Let US alone" The kissing Q
Id cries of "God Save the Queen" [
Id groans for the dynamiter greeted .
is appeal. Two policemen stood near =
but made no effort to disperse the =
OBJ. The party then turned into .
eased. From the windows of some d
the houses in this street "
mana stalks and broken bricks were .
OppCu ObWuJ " ollCu LIS pal | n
wever, escaping injury so far. AS the y y
rty turned into Bay street y. P. CshilI, N
cretary of the local branch of the >,
ague, had his hat knocked off by q "
1ne. The mob now began \ \
THEIR REAL ATTACK.
This street furnished good opportu-
", being covered with clay, broken %
icks and cobble stones. Mr.. O'Brien ?!
d on q tall hat which furnished q good "
ge mark. Wall was on his right and Is
bride ard Mulligan on his left. 81
Look out, O'Brien," shouted Wall a.
he stones are coming. 1t is Belfast 81
er again" 81
'Oh, it's sll right, replied .O'Brien.' 1T az
uld be better for Lansdowne if they IN
uld let US alone"
Us he spoke, volley of bricks and cob
stones came flying from the center Of 4.
.Orangemen, missing the heads, but a.
1cking plssterlng of the adjacent wall. 81
TO hell with the Pope" "kill the trail er
>" and so on, rose high above the din. vi
3rien's party were still on the side tie.
TX and the Orsngemen thronged the NJ
eet. D. L. Kellogg, reporter of ly
New York Sun, now rushed behind Bl
3rien's back to warn him when Ia tn
ne struck O'Brien's hat ami knocked las
If. O'Brien stopped his head, and he
IN Wall, who was standing by his side sai
ed his head to look in the direction, IN
IN 8 huge stone struck him on the mis-